The History of the Web

On the early web, some content pioneers experimented with interactive, community-fed, literate smut.

The history of JSON is the history of the people that created it, and what they set out to do with the software they wrote.

It was 2004, and Ian Hickson had just got out of a W3C workshop organized by Adobe. The topic was how […]

One of the web’s most influential browsers has roots that date back to its earliest days, and an evolution that has transformed it several times over.

I could have titled this “A Tale of Two Acquisitions,” but I already used that one. Still, we’re going to […]

If you’re a developer today, you likely take advantage of built in tools for web debugging every day. They came from the smallest places, and it took years to get them where they are today.

This post starts with a book. This book: It’s called Jargon: An Informal Dictionary of Computer Terms. That’s my copy. It’s […]

I’d really recommend reading a thread on Eric Meyer’s blog from early 2007. In it, he poses a pretty simple […]

The web’s history is filled to the brim with stops and starts and wrong turns. It is a technology that […]

It was January of 2003, and 19 year old blogger and amateur programmer Matt Mullenweg was distraught. In a post […]

Accessibility is one of the foundational principles of the World Wide Web. Fighting to preserve that principle are the creators behind the most powerful tools, some of which still exist today.

The web has a long and storied history with text, typography and fonts. Most content on the web is text. And at […]